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    It is not the case that Some cosmopolitan theories are complicit in imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism despite their stated opposition to these things

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    • 1.Some cosmopolitan frameworks focus too narrowly on the responsibilities and perspectives of the affluent
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    • 2.These frameworks conceive of those living in poverty mainly as passive recipients of aid rather than as active agents
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    • 3.Such a focus shows little sensitivity to epistemic justice and the wide range of perspectives that merit being taken seriously
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    • 1.Rawlsian liberal cosmopolitanism universalizes a distinctly Western conception of individual rights, treating it as culturally neutral when it is not.
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    • 2.When Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism frames global poverty as a rights-violation remediable through reformed Western-led institutions, it reproduces colonial assumptions about who holds corrective power.
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    • 3.Onora O'Neill's agent-centered cosmopolitanism assigns primary moral agency to powerful actors in wealthy states, structurally silencing the normative claims of those in the Global South.
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    • 1.Cosmopolitan theories that derive universal norms through hypothetical consent procedures, like Beitz's extension of Rawls, exclude actually existing non-Western deliberative traditions from the justificatory process.
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    • 2.Postcolonial critics like Bhambra and Shilliam have demonstrated that cosmopolitanism's 'universal' human subject is historically constructed through the erasure of colonial difference, not despite it.
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